Reprint of 1831 map of Louisville, Kentucky, on a scale of 400 feet to the inch. Inverted, with northern boundary of Ohio River at the bottom of the page and southern boundary Prather Street (now Broadway) at the top, Beargrass Creek at left, and...

A tree in Iroquois Park of Louisville, Kentucky is surrounded by a wood frame with chicken and barbed wire. On the tree is carved, "Z. Taylor 1831." Zachary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States, is believed to have carved his name...

Lyttleton Cooke was born in Virginia in 1831. He spent his childhood in boarding schools and academies until age 18 when he entered the law school of the University of Virginia. Involved in a duel, he left before graduation, and moved to St. Louis,...

John Hardin McHenry was born near Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky, in 1797. He was tutored privately, read law and was admitted to the bar in 1818, starting his practice in Leitchfield, Kentucky, where he also acted as postmaster. He was...

William Walter Cleary was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1831. He was an 1849 graduate of Transylvania University and in 1849, graduated from its law department with honors. In 1852, he was admitted to the bar and settled in Cynthiana, Kentucky....

Well-known and widely reproduced full-length photogravure character portrait of performer, producer, director, and writer William Jermyn Florence in costume for the role of The Honorable Bardwell Slate in "The Mighty Dollar," which he performed six...

Well-known and widely reproduced full-length photogravure character portrait of actor Edwin Forrest in costume for the role of Spartacus in "The Gladiator," with curly hair and sideburns, a mustache, and a small patch of beard on his chin, wearing...

Portrait of the young performer, producer, director, and writer William Jermyn Florence wearing a suit jacket and hair parted in the center. Florence, born Bernard Conlin in Albany, New York, on July 26, 1831, first performed at Macauley's Theatre...

Halftone photomechanical print of three-quarter length portrait of performer, producer, director, and writer William Jermyn Florence as a young man, seated and wearing a long suit jacket, vest, and plaid bow tie. Florence, born Bernard Conlin in...

Full-length character portrait of performer, producer, director, and writer William J. Florence, possibly in costume for the role of The Honorable Bardwell Slate in "The Mighty Dollar," which he performed six times at Macauley's Theatre: in January...

A statue of George D. Prentice, editor of the "The Louisville Daily Journal" from 1831 to 1868, sits on the grass in front of what appears to be a church. Early in the twentieth century, the statue was moved from the Courier-Journal building to...